Cloud Website Hosting Description

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. In spite of that, only a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage device for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting firm into a real cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of web hosting providers can actually attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, websites, email addresses, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated just to the email related services. Doing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or perchance an entire collection of email servers, depending on the total server load created. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting corporation will support numerous datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.websoes.com

dns2.websoes.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server simply shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined only to a remote data storage solution, as many service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one tiny segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up out of the blue.